Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize in Economics
Posted in Articles on 15 October 2009
Stats: 145 views and 1 Comment Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She is also one of the most iconoclastic thinkers to win the prize. (She shared the prize with Oliver Williamson.) Professor Ostrom’s work focuses on the mechanisms of self-governance that operate in different societies. ...
Posted in Articles on 15 October 2009
Stats: 145 views and 1 Comment Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She is also one of the most iconoclastic thinkers to win the prize. (She shared the prize with Oliver Williamson.) Professor Ostrom’s work focuses on the mechanisms of self-governance that operate in different societies. ...
Liberty versus Social Engineering
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 9 October 2009
Stats: 15 views and 6 Comments So David Brooks, the New York Times' resident conservative intellectual, must think he's a pretty clever fellow. In trying to characterize "the choices we face on issue after issue," he presumes to enlist the aid of philosophers Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and David Hume (1711-1776). Considering that Bentham ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 9 October 2009
Stats: 15 views and 6 Comments So David Brooks, the New York Times' resident conservative intellectual, must think he's a pretty clever fellow. In trying to characterize "the choices we face on issue after issue," he presumes to enlist the aid of philosophers Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and David Hume (1711-1776). Considering that Bentham ...
